{"id":4910,"date":"2019-03-20T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2019-03-18T12:28:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T19:28:34","slug":"mark-reads-making-money-chapter-6-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2019\/03\/mark-reads-making-money-chapter-6-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;Making Money&#8217;: Chapter 6, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the third part of the sixth chapter of <i>Making Money<\/i>, I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T GET IT. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read <i>Discworld<\/i>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What is happening??? What does this all mean??? Who put those things in the Cabinet in the first place???<\/p>\n<p>This whole scene is SO MUCH and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wrap my head around it. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not enough information here for me to even formulate a theory as to what the HELL Adora Belle actually found, and certainly not enough info for the Cabinet either. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m okay with the latter; explaining the Cabinet seems pointless. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much more fun accepting that this cabinet can unfold infinitely and contain anything non-pink and with a 14\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 14\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 14\u00e2\u20ac\u009d cube. Who cares why that is?<\/p>\n<p>However, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just let the mystery of the golems that Adora Belle found go unsolved or unquestioned. This <i>is<\/i> a cool scene because of the Cabinet of Curiosity and how it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tied to Adora Belle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s past. I am not sure if the Cabinet was ever mentioned before this book or even hinted at, and my guess is that this is the first appearance of it. It works better that way, too, since it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such a huge secret, one that only three non-wizards appear to be aware of. (Adora Belle, her father, and now Moist.) It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that personal history, though, that makes this feel so important and so huge. Adora Belle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father was initially consulted to determine how the Cabinet worked, and that was <i>also<\/i> how she first glimpsed the foot of an Umnian Golem. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so important about the Umnian Golems?<\/p>\n<p><i>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know<\/i>. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re made of white clay and may have been more fragile? See, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if that foot was fragile because of how old it was or because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what they were always like. How did that foot end up in the Cabinet? Why did Adora Belle find the arm of an Umnian golem so far down into the soil? Clearly, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re old, but that can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just be their sole importance. Lots of things are old in <i>Discworld<\/i>. So what meaning does this have to Adora Belle? Why is it so important that she matched that arm with the foot she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d seen so many years prior? Look, Adora Belle RARELY GETS LIKE THIS! She is zoned out into her happy place before the Cabinet even produces the foot for her. Why??? Why does this excite her so much???<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I truly don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get this. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say that Ponder is right. And I also guess that once we get to Professor Flead (HOW??? HE IS DEAD???), we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have confirmation that the Umnians were the first golem-makers. So, from a historical perspective, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a reason to be excited about this. But what do the markings on the golem\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body mean? Why did Adora find only four of these golem? Are there more buried somewhere down there, or are these four the only ones that survived? Because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re probably not dead, right? Oh god, if they lose an arm, are they sentient like that or do they need a full body?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I<\/p>\n<p>DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T<\/p>\n<p>GET<\/p>\n<p>IT<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/xDM5j-4e0ss<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markoshiro.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/19\/the-anger-is-a-gift-paperback-edition-is-out-may-7-2019\">The paperback edition of my debut, ANGER IS A GIFT, is now up for pre-order!<\/a> It comes out on May 7, 2019.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><strong>If you&#8217;d like to stay up-to-date on all announcements regarding my books, <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/ey636\">sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the third part of the sixth chapter of Making Money, I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T GET IT. Intrigued? 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